Saturday, June 2, 2012

As promised, Eric (AlienBOB) has uploaded his LibreOffice packages into his repository which contains the latest version that was released few days ago. This version is expected to bring many performance improvements in terms of speed. It should handle big and complex files more gracefully.

Since last year, the LibreOffice developers has began hunting for dead code inheritted from their ancestor, OpenOffice.org and tried to remove them. With some help from Caolan McNamara of RedHat who made a beautifull tool called CallCatcher, they are able to spot the modules and removes them.

Here are the graphic until the end of last year. With LibreOffice 3.5.4, the dead code removal has been even better and optimized. We shall see more performance improvements on future LibreOffice releases in the future.